Mario Villalobos

landscape of the mission mountains taken from ninepipes reservoir during mid-morning, the sky thick with smoke, a pair birds flying from right to left

Crazy

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I think all this smoke has driven everyone crazy. A couple of employees (and friends of mine) resigned from the school today, a few days after a somewhat contentious board meeting, or so I’ve been told since I didn’t go. Small towns spread rumors faster than conspiracy theories at a Trump rally, and I heard one thing one moment and the complete opposite the next that at some point, I simply stopped caring. Maybe that makes me a bad person or a bad friend, and honestly, maybe I am both, and I think that’s okay because this smoke has driven me crazy, too.

I went back to the reservoir and saw a few kids fishing. I drove past their ATV and found a nice spot by the rocks. I breathed in the fresh smoky air and shot some photos with my X-T4, and then I went home.

portrait landscape of the mission mountains taken from ninepipes reservoir during mid-morning, the sky thick with smoke, a solitary goose swimming on the water